We were spending $2.1M on travel. Sarah found $340K in savings we didn't know existed.
Average client saves 16% of annual travel spend in year one
Sarah Vance
Corporate Travel Consultant · 14 years · $180M audited
Former airline contract negotiator. Now works exclusively with mid-market companies spending $500K–$5M on travel annually.
"Every overspend has a paper trail. The airline that's been auto-renewing at 2019 rates. The hotel chain billing the executive rate for associate travel. The expense category with no policy and no ceiling. I open the books, find those lines, and fix them."
— Sarah Vance
The first questions I ask every client
When did you last renegotiate your airline volume discount agreements?
Do you have a preferred hotel program, and does it actually price-match the OTAs?
What percentage of bookings happen outside your approved booking tool?
Can you tell me your average ticket price by route in the last 12 months?
Five phases. No guesswork.
Every engagement follows the same structured process. Here's exactly what happens from the first call to the quarterly review.
Open the books.
Three weeks of line-by-line expense analysis. Every receipt category, every vendor contract, every booking tool fee. I build a complete map of where the money goes before making a single recommendation.
Find the gaps.
Your spend compared against companies your size, in your industry, with your travel patterns. I know what a reasonable transatlantic business class fare looks like in Q1. I know what hotel rates your competitors negotiated. You'll see exactly where you're losing.
Use leverage you didn't know you had.
Airlines and hotel chains respond to volume commitments, route concentration, and advance booking windows. Most mid-market companies have never formally presented their data. I've negotiated 140+ corporate agreements. I know which levers move rates.
Policy employees will actually follow.
A travel policy that lives in a PDF no one reads is not a policy. I write it in plain language, build it into your booking tool, and train the three people who actually make the reservations. Adoption rates matter more than policy quality.
Keep the savings.
Contracts drift. Vendors quietly raise rates at renewal. Employees find workarounds. Quarterly reviews catch it before it compounds. A one-page dashboard, four times a year, keeps $200K from quietly walking back out the door.
Get Your Travel Audit
A 30-minute call and a look at your last 12 months of travel spend. No pitch deck. Just an honest assessment of where the money is going.
"Our CFO called it the best $40K we ever spent on a consultant. The hotel program renegotiation alone saved us $180K in the first year."
"I thought we had a reasonable travel policy. Turns out 38% of our bookings were happening outside it. Sarah fixed that in 60 days."
"The expense reconciliation used to take my team 4 days every month. Now it's half a day. That alone justified the entire engagement."
Corporate Travel Savings Checklist
The exact checklist Sarah uses in every initial audit. 47 questions across five categories. Download it, run it yourself, and you'll know within an hour where the leaks are.
No sales follow-up. Just the checklist.
Get Your Travel Audit
A 30-minute call and a look at your last 12 months of travel spend. No pitch deck. Just an honest assessment of where the money is going.